Songphon Satta-Udom. A survey of language learning strategies used by first year students at Mahidol University : the impact of field of study. Master's Degree(Applied Linguistics). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2007.
A survey of language learning strategies used by first year students at Mahidol University : the impact of field of study
Abstract:
This research reports on a survey of language learning strategies used by firstyear
students at Mahidol University in the 2006 academic year. The subjects
participating in this study were 570 first-year students (447 science students and 123
non-science students). The instrument employed in this study was the SILL
questionnaire (Strategy Inventory for Language Learning).
The findings from the study revealed that both science and non-science
students generally applied all six strategy groups (memory, cognitive, compensation,
metacognitive, affective, and social strategies) at a moderate frequency of use. The
majority of the students most frequently used compensation strategies, while social
strategies were the least frequently used. Similarly, science students preferred using
compensation strategies the most, and social strategies were voted as the least
frequently used. The non-science students employed metacognitive strategies most
often, while the least often used strategies were the group of memory strategies. The
use of overall language learning strategies reported by science and non-science
students was not significantly different registering at a confidence level of .05.
However, the results showed that the non-science students used social strategies
significantly more than the science students.